A HANDFUL OF HURRICANES

"Kemp has been playing musical chairs since she was a teenager. From folk to a cappella to post rock, the 22-year-old has crossed the board throughout her short career. The daughter of Steeleye Span members Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp, she provided backing vocals for the folk-rock band from an early age. Since then she's played in her mother's a cappella group (Maddy Prior and the Girls), released an acoustic pop album under her own name and currently moonlights in Jeremy Smoking Jacket (an improvisational pop duo), and VILNA (an instrumental post rock band). These influences all find their way on to A Hand Full of Hurricanes, which fuses PJ Harvey's guttural swagger and primitive riffs with several atmospheric adorned songs that, while providing a respite from the thunder, ultimately drag the album down. Because, for all its melodic intent and instrumental interplay, A Hand Full of Hurricanes is over wrought and under cooked¯an angst-ridden record full of relationship-fuelled diatribes and therapeutic musings that lack..." www.stylusmagazine.com